We are the Children of Art

4/7 Exhibition "comm.blk" - Communication Block An Installation by Frank Woo
7 APRIL 2006 (FRIDAY) - 7 PM !!!Tonite!!!
GALLERIIIZU, UOA CENTER, KUALA LUMPUR
TEL: 03 2380 1121


Frank Woo’s installation COMM.BLK tries to illustrate the growing challenge of communication between regions and cultures and how the interpretation of the same – verbally or nonverbally exchanged – information varies according to the respective background and influencing factors. The work portrays communication from four different perspectives according to the four points of the compass – North, East, South and West. The artwork also deals with the barriers, obstructions and blocking factors of communication and the distortion of information through perception, censorship or manipulation as to be found in our everyday life. Visitors can physically experience that in order to get a clear understanding of certain information it may be necessary to give up familiar and habitual communication patterns and to shift paradigms by looking at the information from various perspectives. Thus this installation demonstrates clearly: Whether communication will imply positive or negative effects, whether information evokes negative or positive reactions, will crucially depend on the respective context and point of view.

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